While I was in the UK I picked up some seeds (Mum and I shared some packets).
These two I plan to save seed from:
broad beans: “Masterpiece Green Longpod “
Extra long 12″ pods, excellent for freezing, sow feb-Apr, so it may not overwinter. I’ll try some in fall 2009 though.
Shelling peas: “Meteor” bush pea 18″ high, the shortest I could find. Overwinters from an Oct-Nov sowing, or sow in March.
The following are brassicas and I don’t plan to save seed, but they are OP and I can give away a small packet to anyone interested:
Sprouting Broccoli “extra early sprouting Rudolph”
Overwinters from a Apr-Jun sowing to start harvesting January onwards – good flavoured purple spears.
Sprouting Broccoli “White Sprouting”
Overwinters from a Apr-May sowing to harvest Mar-Apr – white spears.
Sprouting Broccoli “Purple Sprouting”
Overwinters from a Apr-May sowing to harvest Mar-Apr – purple spears.
Brussels Sprouts “Bedford Winter Harvest”
Sow Mar-Apr for Nov-Feb harvest. Reliable, long season, winter-hardy.
Obviously these are not part of the “project” but fun anyway 
Kevin
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February 26, 2009 at 9:54 am
seedywen
Will look forward to swapping Broad Bean seeds in our seedy future, Kevin:)
The Seed Saving project 2009 does include a broad bean variety, called Andy’s Broad Beans, selected over 3 decades by Andy Pollock of northern B.C.
Am planning on growing out some of these green-seeded favas. Have some of my own broad beans to share, which originally started out, Broad Windsor. Big tan/light green seeds.
Also have a smaller seeded fava which grew out from a package of purple seeds. The resulting seeds were all smaller than Windsor but a mix of tan and purple. Will keep growing out the purple seeds.